October 14 - BBC is awesome

Pretty solid week. Made a few bucks at the casino, which means both I'm happy and my staker is happy. Always nice when that happens =). Tried out a few new games this weekend and did Caesars on Friday and Mirage on Saturday. Had my first “celebrity” siting as well...saw Jerry Bus (owner of the Lakers) at Mirage...kind of cool.

So far I'm enjoying live. I don't enjoy that I've put in about 42 hours of live play, and only seen about 1.6K hands (currently about 2hrs of work for me on-line). O well...still making OK money thus far, and it's a really nice mix-up from on-line. This month has just been working on Stox videos which hasn't been super motivation for me to play. So between live and coaching, I've gotten back some motivation. So far my goals for the month (40hs live, 30hrs on-line) should be completed for sure.

Random notes: I've been watching a lot of BBC (the British television network that we get here on cable)...and I love British programing. BBC is, from what I've heard, the “best of the best” in British TV. The accents are awesome, the picture is meh because they don't care about over-producing and making garbage, and they use awesome slang that I don't understand. For anyone that enjoys cars even a bit, I suggest checking out “Top Gear”...where they do car reviews and tons of random activities with cars (like drowning a Toyota truck and racing high-end cars versus airplanes).

Also, check out “Dragon's Den”. It's a show where the “Dragons” (a group of venture capitalists worth well over $20M each) hear pitches from entrepreneurs attempting to get funding for their start-up company. There are some good ideas on the show, but often times they are crap and it's funny to see how badly they prepared for such a situation. Really awesome show for anyone who wants to become an entrepreneur and would need funding at any point. Makes you focus on what VC's will ask during these encounters and also how prepared you need to be (also, how to not answer a question).

Other than that, I had a semi-job interview over the weekend (family contact that wanted to meet me and see what he could help with). I think it went well and that he will be putting me in contact with some people this week. The thing that struck me as odd, is that poker came up. I'm not sure why, but poker might be the hardest thing in a job interview. Because people want to understand the resume gap (even though I graduated in May, apparently they expect you get a job within a month of graduating), so they ask how I've been affording life. I need to figure out a good answer for this, as “I play and coach poker” doesn't seem to feel right. Any suggestions? And on that topic, I love that I graduated when I did!!! The job economy is just booming with good jobs!!! (super sarcasm obviously)

And on that note, a hand before bed (villain ended up being a dude I know from Syracuse (which I did not know at the time)...oddly small world sometimes):

Full Tilt Poker Game #8434276636: Table Wood Plank - $0.25/$0.50 - No Limit Hold'em - 19:56:39 ET - 2008/10/10
Seat 1: a88shin ($50)
Seat 2: TBluehand ($50)
Seat 3: turoati ($50)
Seat 4: Its RIGGIGGITY ($50)
Seat 5: MikeB1337 ($50)
Seat 6: Faaantastic ($51.25)
Seat 7: Cransley69 ($80.40)
Seat 8: titralac ($20)
Seat 9: njochems ($50)
Cransley69 posts the small blind of $0.25
titralac posts the big blind of $0.50
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Its RIGGIGGITY [7d 8h]
njochems folds
a88shin folds
TBluehand folds
turoati folds
Its RIGGIGGITY raises to $1.50
MikeB1337 raises to $4.50
Faaantastic folds
Cransley69 folds
titralac folds
Its RIGGIGGITY raises to $11
MikeB1337 calls $6.50
*** FLOP *** [6c Qs 7h]
Its RIGGIGGITY bets $39, and is all in
MikeB1337 calls $39, and is all in
Its RIGGIGGITY shows [7d 8h]
MikeB1337 shows [Ac As]
*** TURN *** [6c Qs 7h] [7c]
*** RIVER *** [6c Qs 7h 7c] [4h]
Its RIGGIGGITY shows three of a kind, Sevens
MikeB1337 shows two pair, Aces and Sevens
Its RIGGIGGITY wins the pot ($97.75) with three of a kind, Sevens

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